Ontario to Pre-Emptively Legislate Education Workers Staff Back to Work

Ontario to Pre-Emptively Legislate Education Workers Staff Back to Work
A person walks in the hall at a school in Scarborough, Ont., in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
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Ontario’s education minister intends to introduce legislation Monday that will avert a looming support staff strike and impose a contract on them, a proposition the union said it is prepared to fight.

Stephen Lecce’s announcement came hours after the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents about 55,000 education workers, announced that it was giving the required five days’ notice to start a full strike on Friday. They are in a legal strike position on Thursday.